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Woman Sues SF Police after 'Shocking' Use of Her Rape Kit DNA
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Leroy N. Soetoro
2022年9月16日 20:10:132022/9/16
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https://sfstandard.com/criminal-justice/woman-sues-sf-police-after-
shocking-use-of-her-rape-kit-dna/
A woman whose rape kit was used by San Francisco police to build a
burglary case against her is suing the city for what her attorneys call an
egregious civil rights violation.
The suit filed in federal court Monday under the alias “Jane Doe” says
that SFPD, from at least 2015 until this year, ran DNA samples from sexual
assault victims through a database that checked for matches from genetic
material collected from a wide array of crime scenes.
Doe and her attorneys—Adante Pointer and colleagues from law firm Pointer
& Buelna LLP—are demanding a jury trial in the U.S. Northern District of
California for a practice they say violated her constitutional rights as
well as those of an untold number of other sexual assault victims.
Meanwhile, it remains unclear if the police department completed a
promised audit to review the scope of the practice.
“This case brings to light the San Francisco Police Department’s shocking
practice of placing crime victims’ DNA into a permanent database without
the victims’ knowledge or consent,” the lawsuit states. “There are
reportedly thousands of people who are being subjected to this arbitrary,
unlawful unconstitutional invasion of privacy.”
The lawsuit filed this week echoes many of the details Doe shared earlier
this year when announcing plans to mount a legal challenge. It describes
how she reported her rape to SFPD in November 2016 and submitted
biological evidence collected by nurses and doctors as part of her sexual
assault kit.
Nearly five years later, that DNA was used against her.
In December 2021, SFPD matched DNA collected in a burglary investigation
with the biological samples from her rape kit and obtained a warrant for
her arrest.
A month later, she said she called police to intervene in a domestic
dispute she was having with her boyfriend. When officers showed up, she
said they arrested her and let her boyfriend go.
“I was confused,” Doe, a mother in her 20s, told The Standard on condition
of anonymity.
The burglary charges were eventually dropped after former District
Attorney Chesa Boudin exposed what happened earlier this year. The woman
was about to be arraigned when her attorney, Deputy Public Defender Will
Helvestine, told her how police had used the rape kit to arrest her.
“I said, ‘Huh, can you tell me that again?’” she recounted. “I couldn’t
believe it. Did he say what he really told me?”
She said she had no idea SFPD would keep her DNA and use it for other
purposes—let alone to criminalize her.
“They might as well have put a leash around my neck and walked me like a
dog,” she said, “because I’m getting treated like one.”
Doe said being arrested after summoning police for help during a domestic
disturbance retraumatized her—not only by prompting flashbacks to her
sexual assualt but also to the death of her mother after suffering
domestic violence.
“It’s just reliving trauma,” Doe said. “I was hurt again there. I just
felt betrayed.”
Whatever the outcome of her federal case, Doe said she would like a
personal apology for what she went through.
“I feel like someone needs to have taken action,” she said. “We’re all
people, right?”
Ongoing Fallout
Since the public revelation that DNA was being used to prosecute victims,
SFPD vowed to end the practice. The department also began a review to
determine how long it should preserve genetic evidence.
The status of that proposed policy change and the inquiry into whether any
other DNA matches led to arrests have yet to be made public.
SFPD, which as a policy does not comment on ongoing lawsuits, did not
respond to questions about the audit or the new DNA retention timetable.
About a month after Doe went public with her story, however, the San
Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a measure to address the issue by
baring police from storing crime scene DNA, including rape kits, in city
databases for more than 60 days.
This is hardly the first time SPFD has found itself in hot water over the
way it handles rape cases.
For years, the department failed to test rape kit DNA in a timely manner,
which ostensibly meant potential perpetrators walked free. In 2017, SFPD
announced it had finally cleared its decades-old backlog, though it’s
unclear if that resulted in any prosecutions of rapists or exonerations of
falsely accused suspects.
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shocking-use-of-her-rape-kit-dna/
A woman whose rape kit was used by San Francisco police to build a
burglary case against her is suing the city for what her attorneys call an
egregious civil rights violation.
The suit filed in federal court Monday under the alias “Jane Doe” says
that SFPD, from at least 2015 until this year, ran DNA samples from sexual
assault victims through a database that checked for matches from genetic
material collected from a wide array of crime scenes.
Doe and her attorneys—Adante Pointer and colleagues from law firm Pointer
& Buelna LLP—are demanding a jury trial in the U.S. Northern District of
California for a practice they say violated her constitutional rights as
well as those of an untold number of other sexual assault victims.
Meanwhile, it remains unclear if the police department completed a
promised audit to review the scope of the practice.
“This case brings to light the San Francisco Police Department’s shocking
practice of placing crime victims’ DNA into a permanent database without
the victims’ knowledge or consent,” the lawsuit states. “There are
reportedly thousands of people who are being subjected to this arbitrary,
unlawful unconstitutional invasion of privacy.”
The lawsuit filed this week echoes many of the details Doe shared earlier
this year when announcing plans to mount a legal challenge. It describes
how she reported her rape to SFPD in November 2016 and submitted
biological evidence collected by nurses and doctors as part of her sexual
assault kit.
Nearly five years later, that DNA was used against her.
In December 2021, SFPD matched DNA collected in a burglary investigation
with the biological samples from her rape kit and obtained a warrant for
her arrest.
A month later, she said she called police to intervene in a domestic
dispute she was having with her boyfriend. When officers showed up, she
said they arrested her and let her boyfriend go.
“I was confused,” Doe, a mother in her 20s, told The Standard on condition
of anonymity.
The burglary charges were eventually dropped after former District
Attorney Chesa Boudin exposed what happened earlier this year. The woman
was about to be arraigned when her attorney, Deputy Public Defender Will
Helvestine, told her how police had used the rape kit to arrest her.
“I said, ‘Huh, can you tell me that again?’” she recounted. “I couldn’t
believe it. Did he say what he really told me?”
She said she had no idea SFPD would keep her DNA and use it for other
purposes—let alone to criminalize her.
“They might as well have put a leash around my neck and walked me like a
dog,” she said, “because I’m getting treated like one.”
Doe said being arrested after summoning police for help during a domestic
disturbance retraumatized her—not only by prompting flashbacks to her
sexual assualt but also to the death of her mother after suffering
domestic violence.
“It’s just reliving trauma,” Doe said. “I was hurt again there. I just
felt betrayed.”
Whatever the outcome of her federal case, Doe said she would like a
personal apology for what she went through.
“I feel like someone needs to have taken action,” she said. “We’re all
people, right?”
Ongoing Fallout
Since the public revelation that DNA was being used to prosecute victims,
SFPD vowed to end the practice. The department also began a review to
determine how long it should preserve genetic evidence.
The status of that proposed policy change and the inquiry into whether any
other DNA matches led to arrests have yet to be made public.
SFPD, which as a policy does not comment on ongoing lawsuits, did not
respond to questions about the audit or the new DNA retention timetable.
About a month after Doe went public with her story, however, the San
Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a measure to address the issue by
baring police from storing crime scene DNA, including rape kits, in city
databases for more than 60 days.
This is hardly the first time SPFD has found itself in hot water over the
way it handles rape cases.
For years, the department failed to test rape kit DNA in a timely manner,
which ostensibly meant potential perpetrators walked free. In 2017, SFPD
announced it had finally cleared its decades-old backlog, though it’s
unclear if that resulted in any prosecutions of rapists or exonerations of
falsely accused suspects.
--
"LOCKDOWN", left-wing COVID fearmongering. 95% of COVID infections
recover with no after effects.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.
Donald J. Trump, cheated out of a second term by fraudulent "mail-in"
ballots. Report voter fraud: sf.n...@mail.house.gov
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
Ed Debevic
2022年9月16日 23:28:262022/9/16
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2022年9月20日 11:53:412022/9/20
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